GCF Primer

This Primer gives a gentle introduction to the task of developing gCube services with the gCore Framework. Have a quick look at the prerequisites and make sure you go through the preliminary steps. Then dive in.

1. First Things First: Prerequisites & Preliminaries
2. The ACME Project: Organising Structure & Dependencies
3. A Quick Tour of Development
   1. My First Profile
   2. A Tiny JNDI
   3. A PortType Interface
   4. A Simple Implementation
   5. Building & Deploying
   6. Starting the gHN
   7. A Minimal Client
4. Refining the Implementation: Faults, Logs, and PortType Contexts
   1. A Faultful PortType
   2. Logging it!
   3. Node & Port-Type Contexts
5. Adding State: Concepts, Patterns, and Standards
   1. WS-Resources and The Implied Resource Pattern
   2. WS-Resources and Standard Interfaces
   3. The Lifetime of WS-Resources
   4. Persistence for WS-Resources
   5. Publishing WS-Resources
6. Advanced Topics
   1. Interfacing the Information System
   2. Service security
7. Learning more

--Manuele.simi